Woman Plans to Marry a Cardboard Robert Pattinson

We'd all like to marry Robert Pattinson, but one Las Vegas woman is actually doing it. Well, kinda: Lauren Adkins is marrying a cardboard cutout of the sexy Brit in character as Twilight's Edward Cullen.

It's not a joke, either: She's planning to marry "R-Patz" in a Las Vegas chapel, complete with cake, invitations—the whole nine yards. She even managed to raise over $1,200 through the fundraising platform Indiegogo.

Adkins isn't just a fan, though: The 24-year-old student is doing this as part of her graduate thesis project on female escapism and celebrity fanaticism.

"Edward Cullen is really tied to the idea of Vegas for me," Adkins told the Las Vegas Review-Journal of the project. "The fantasy behind it can never be achieved. It's the ultimate facade."

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Okay, but what we really want to know is...will she have to get a divorce if she wants to marry a real guy down the road?

Tell us: Which fictional character would you marry, given the opportunity?